Adverb
in a witty manner
Source: WordNetEpaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, "How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?" Plutarch
The world is rejuvenated, but as Heine so wittily remarked, it was rejuvenated by romanticism to such a degree that it became a baby again. Soren Kierkegaard
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. Robert Southey
he would wittily chime into our conversation Source: Internet
As he writes, wittily, “there is little to be gained from rationalizing an irrational past.” Source: Internet
And the first chapter introduces a large cast of characters, wittily yet a little clumsily. Source: Internet